{"id":2562,"date":"2024-05-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2024-05-12T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T23:31:30","slug":"may-9-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2024\/05\/09\/may-9-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"786\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Picture-3z-scaled-e1713798692496-834x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C786&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1814\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Genesis 49-50, Job 30, 1 Peter 3:17-22, 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What God said to me \u2013 <\/strong>There is no question that some point in your life you will suffer because of the consequences of your actions.\u00a0 The question is – will this suffering be a consequence of your own sin or a consequence of your refusal to sin?\u00a0 There is a world of difference between the two.\u00a0 When you suffer as a consequence of your own sin the purpose of your suffering is for judgment and to bring you to a renewed and restored relationship with Me.\u00a0 When your suffering is the result of persecution because you refuse to sin or is the result of someone else\u2019s sin, you must turn to Me in trust and believe that \u201cI AM\u201d doing a work in your life that will be for your good and My glory.\u00a0 You can know that when you suffer this way and respond this\u00a0way that \u201cI AM\u2019 well pleased with you, My child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 49-50, Job 30, 1 Peter 3:17-22, 4 What God said to me \u2013 There is no question that some point in your life you will suffer because of the consequences of your actions.\u00a0 The question is – will this suffering be a consequence of your own sin or a consequence of your refusal to … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/2024\/05\/09\/may-9-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “May 9, 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,6,4,24,46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-peter","category-devotion","category-genesis","category-job","category-new-testament","category-old-testament","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelongconversation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}